the reason we're here right now is our friends on the other side say solve this illegal immigration problem right now or we're going to shut the government down. >> i'm not playing for political points. i'm trying to get us to come together on a bipartisan nature. >> a shutdown looks more likely by the hour. we have reports on the top stories this morning from capitol hill, china, iraq and london. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. isn't it amazing the congress has a 16% approval rating. how is it that high? >> it has one job. run the government. it is about to run it into the